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House hears testimony on abortion proposal ^es in these.' 1 m the “close- Uible-toting, s far as Texas te democratic for the ii -s change and ng, conserva- g the rigid island the el- scraper must wind, society, facing poten- is, and that’s lints society ice must exist t wings. Our erals because reform, but follow them, nerica would revolutionar) se, 1 am a lb ige, but only ' to maintain his country “1 does notin- mist," “anar- more joum :olumnistfor Associated Press ■ AUSTIN — Lawmakers who re- i|use to ban abortions in the final Phree months of pregnancy are simi- - lar to Nazi leaders who refused to slop the killing of Jews, a Houston physician testified Monday. H But a Dallas lawyer testifying ■gainst the abortion ban said worry- llig about protecting fetuses is simi- Hr to worrying about protecting Reed corn.” I Rockdale Rep. L.B. Kubiak’s anti- ! abortion bill drew perhaps the larg- mt crowd of the legislative session. ■ The Kubiak bill would ban abor- Efions in the final three months of ■regnancy (unless the mother’s life is endangered), ban state money for abortions, require anesthesia for the • fetus in some cases and require pa- ■ental consent in order for a minor to get an abortion. B “This problem has been virtually I ignored by the state of Texas since 1 1973,” when a Texas case sparked Hie U.S. Supreme Court ruling le galizing abortion, said Kubiak, a vet- I erinarian. B He said the high court ruling al- j lowed states to regulate, but not ban, [bortion. Forty states have such reg- ations. “With almost all other medical The Kubiak bill would ban abortions in the final three months of preg nancy unless the mothers life is endangered. procedures, we require parental con sent; why is abortion excluded?” Ku biak asked the House State Affairs Committee. “The unborn child has less rights than a murderer on Death Row in this state,” he said. “What has that child done to deserve this?” Chairman Pete Laney, D-Hale Center, said Kubiak’s bill would be sent to subcommittee. Two of Kubiak’s witnesses talked about their work in abortion clinics in Texas. Carol Everett of Dallas said she made as much as $125,000 a year doing abortions until she de cided it wasn’t right. “Nobody can tolerate killing ba bies day after day after day,” she said. “Even the employees can’t take putting them in a garbage disposal or trash can.” Judy Weerstra, former office member for an El Paso abortion clinic, said some of the clinics have a “butcher shop image.” “It’s a dog-eat-dog type of indus try,” she testified. “It degenerated into a facility that was profit- oriented with little concern for the health of women, much less an un born child.” Houston physician Steven Hotze offered the Nazi Germany analogy. “You’re no different than the men and women in Germany who re fused to take up the case for the Jews who were slaughtered in the abor tion camps,” he told the committee. Committee member Lena Guer rero, D-Austin, told Hotze she found his testimony “offensive.” Dallas attorney Otto Mullinax of fered an argument against any state restriction on abortion “until you, the state, know more about it.” “You had better let her do the guessing,” he said of mothers who face an unwanted pregnancy. Dr. Peter Weston, a San Antonio gynecologist, testified that medical science cannot determine when a fe tus is “viable” and could live outside the womb. The Kubiak bill could mean that “any overzealous district attorney or grand jury could really run amok” in prosecuting physicians who perform abortions, he said. Senate tentatively approves state presidential primary bill in a Associated Press 1 AUSTIN — Enough Senate Dem- Hciats stayed locked-in Monday to 5 tentatively approve a bill that would ■How Texans to vote in a “Super -Tuesday” presidential primary in ; March 1988. I The voice vote was taken after Hen. John Leedom, R-Dallas, stalled Htion by talking for over six hours in protest of the bill. pie to won) ■ a f, na i vote on another day is ats when the) needed to send the bill to the House. ■ A motion to debate the bill cleared overt militarv | tA-1, with a lone Democrat — Sen. pplying more d to Central Roy Blake of Nacogdoches — join ing the six Senate Republicans in op posing the proposal. Other Democrats strayed on later votes, but sponsor Chet Edwards, D- Duncanville kept enough on his side to beat back attempts to allow cross over voting and cross-over filing where a candidate could seek the party nomination of Democrats and Republicans. The vote was 17-10 against cross over filing and 20-9 against cross over voting. Edwards’ bill would set up a presi dential primary for Democrats and Republicans on the second Tuesday of March in presidential election years. Other parties could qualify for a primary. The date of the regular May pri mary for state and local candidates would not be changed. Under Edwards’ bill, 75 percent of the delegates would be named according to the popular vote in the presidential primary and 25 percent through party conventions. ter will H >r journalism age editor (or iference 1 Board clitor ing Editor s Editor age Editor Editor Editor iff , Kari Fluegel, tt, Kay Mallett trean Williams Ji-Ellen Clark tebecca Adair, , Marcy Basile, randon Bern, snn Cervenka, >rd, Mary Cox, tz, Cindy Gay, rent Leonola, :s, jerry (Jslin, Tricia Parker, both Rohsner, Walter Sinitli \ Kelley Smith ..Karen Bloch, Karla Martin y, Kevin Inda, Loren Steffy Mike Lane Dale Smith Cathy Bennelt atherine Hurt ithony Casper, i, Frank Irwin, ha, DeanSaito >n are those of lhe j not necessaril ninistrators, tory newspaper for holography classes iarilvrep- rs, tacultj eed 300 words in right to edit letters y effort to maintain >e signed and must iber of the writer. 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